Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) is pleased to announce it will be working in partnership with Wales Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) on a project that will not only help reduce waste but also save the NHS valuable money. For the past ten years, staff from the Physiotherapy Department at Cardiff and Vale UHB have been recycling and re-issuing walking aids in a bid to reduce waste and better invest NHS money. As the population ages and there are…

Residents of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan are being asked to return walking aids that they are no longer using.  This Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) initiative aims to not only reduce waste, but save thousands of pounds of valuable healthcare money too. After an injury or operation, people are often issued with a walking aid, such as a frame or pair of crutches, on loan to get them mobile again.  But what happens to them when…